Convenient Fine Art Shopping Now Available via Amazon

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Has contemporary art jumped the shark?

While shopping on Amazon.com for normal houseware supplies, I ran across this Damien Hirst Spot Painting print on sale for $8,900 (With free shipping too.  What a deal!).  It is difficult to associate fine art experience with a one-click shopping experience facilitated by the e-commerce corporate giant.

Where is the art appreciation in this?  How can I speak to the gallery rep to learn more about the print-making process or its provenance?  Where is the exhilaration that you feel as you track down a piece you have been searching, if all you need to do is type in a keyword in the Amazon search bar?

It feels all too immediate.

We’re On the Front Page of Pressimus!

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I’ve posted about Pressimus before, and I’ve been using it regularly ever since, which is why I’m even more excited about this news: BDAB is featured on the front page of this new technology platform!

Here are 3 reasons why you should try it out too.

  1. It’s the best way to track and find the latest, trending, relevant news.  The powerful algorithm behind this technology smartly aggregates from various news media outlets to deliver to you what you need to see at any given moment.
  2. It’s so easy to share the latest, trending, relevant news.  You just read the most insightful article from a thought leader of your interest?  With the simple click of a button, you’re ready to press this news to all your followers with a short review from yourself.
  3. You can weed out the crap you couldn’t care less about.  If you’re on Facebook or Instagram, you’re already familiar with the pain of indiscriminately consuming all content being pushed out by the person or group that you follow.  With Pressimus’s intelligent hierarchy of information, you have the means to follow only topics that you care about.  The hierarchy goes like this: Person (That’s you or the people that you follow) –> Publication (I have publications based on my various interests e.g. art and business)–> Stream (You can further differentiate your interests into various topics e.g. news and Instagram) –> Press (This is equivalent to an individual post)

 

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You might have noticed a page on the header above “Instagram/Pressimus Feed”.  This is where we post the most interesting pictures from Instagram using Pressimus’s platform for micro-blogging.  You’ll find additional content on this page, so make sure to visit it regularly.  We update that page more often than the main page because Pressimus makes it so easy.

Visit Pressimus, sign up, and take it for a ride.

Note: I’m not associated with Pressimus in any way nor am I being paid by them.  I genuinely think it’s a good technology, so I’m telling everyone else about it.

Street Art vs. Urban Art

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Those in highbrow art circles detest saying the words “street art”, instead electing to call it “urban art”, which suits their refined tastes more.  Urban art sounds so fake though, since street art isn’t relegated to urban areas and is a generally less encompassing description.  A quick Google trends search shows that the searches for “urban art” has been in decline since late 2013, while “street art” peaked in May 2012 and has stayed stable since.  It’s an interesting trend where you can see how the trajectory of interests in the genre has been changing. Here’s another surprising trend though.
 


I would have guessed the UK or US to be the #1 searcher for street art, but UK is #3 and US is all the way down in #7.  #1 is actually Australia with New Zealand trailing behind them.  If I think about it, it’s not that surprising seeing as I can already list off quite a few native Australian street artists off the top of my head, like Meggs, Anthony Lister, and Mark Whalen.  Any Ozzies in the house right now?